The beautiful but unfortunate country where the scene of this pathetic eclogue is laid, had been recently torn in pieces by the depredations of its savage neighbours, when Mr. Collins so affectingly described its misfortunes.
All the advantages that any species of poetry can derive from the novelty of the subject and scenery, this eclogue possesses.
But, letting that pass, this whole Eclogue is but a long paraphrase of a trite verse in Virgil, and Homer; Nec vox hominem sonat: O Dea certe!
Mopsus laments his death; Menalcas proclaims his divinity; the whole eclogue consisting of an elegy and an apotheosis.
There are lines in more than one Eclogue which remind one in everything but their languor of the flattest parts of Lucretius.
The fourth Eclogue unfortunately has been so long and so deeply associated with purely adventitious ideas that it requires a considerable effort to read it as it ought to be read.
A translation of the first Eclogue of Virgil had even preceded this.
In A18, N, TC, the title at the beginning is: Eclogue Inducing an Epithalamion at the marriage of the E.
Donne calls Mantuan the scourge of women because of his fourth eclogue De natura mulierum.
The supposed connection of the fourth Eclogue with the Sibylline Books, and through them, with the sacred wisdom of the Hebrews, of course placed Virgil on a different level from other heathens.
The first eclogue of Calpurnius is devoted to the praises of a young emperor who is to regenerate the world, and exercise a wisdom, a clemency, and a patronage of the arts long unknown.
Varus dies (= the poet of Cremona, mentioned in the ninth Eclogue [?
This seems as ambiguous as any part of our author's history, for at eighteen years of age he had addressed Edward the Sixth by "Our Eclogue of Elpine.
Such piscatory eclogue fell upon our ear, when our guide announced to us that we had now seen every thing.
The first Eclogue is a conversation between two fugitive shepherds, who bewail the wretched condition to which the barons' wars have reduced them.
Among the contemporary English poets, Puttenham extols “for eclogue and pastoral poetry Sir Philip Sydney and Master Chaloner, and that other gentleman who wrote the late Shepherd’s Kalendar.
An eclogue of Garcilasso, called Salicio and Nemoroso, is pronounced by the Spanish critics to be one of the finest works in their language.
In a Latin eclogue quoted by Paschasius Radbert (ob.
Footnote 3: This mixed character of Silenus is finely painted in the sixtheclogue of Virgil.
A mediaeval eclogue ascribes to the cuckoo the years of the sun, "Phoebo comes annus in aevum.
Sismondi[14] regards this work as an ecloguerather than a drama.
The Orpheus, though divided into five acts, though mingled with chorus, and terminating with a tragic incident, is still an eclogue rather than a drama.
In another Eclogue (April) the subduing beauty is described as 'the Widdowes daughter of the Glen,' surely a Northern address.
In the Fourth Eclogue Hobbinol is discovered by Thenot deeply mourning, and, asked the reason, replies that his grief is because .
The twelfth eclogue opens thus: The gentle shepheard sat beside a springe All in the shadow of a bushye brere, That Colin height, which well could pype and singe, For hee of Tityrus his songs did lere.
He seems to have had in view also the third Eclogue of Walsh: Upon hard oaks let blushing peaches grow, And from the brambles liquid amber flow.
In the third eclogue of Virgil we have two rivals and an umpire.
Still there remains the circumstance of the parallelism between parts of Isaiah and the Eclogue which Virgil based upon the Sibylline verses.
Yet it is not sufficient, that the sentences only be brief, the whole eclogue should be so too.
The fourth eclogue of Virgil is devoted to celebrating the coming birth, while Pollio is Consul, of a boy whose infancy will usher in the golden age, and whose manhood will witness its fullness.
This," says Pope, "will not seem surprising when we reflect that the Ecloguewas taken from a Sibylline prophecy on the same subject.
This will not seem surprising, when we reflect, that theEclogue was taken from a Sibylline prophecy on the same subject.
Only the third Ecloguewas written since some of these saw the other three, which were written as they here stand with the Essay, anno 1704.
Your last Eclogue being on the same subject with mine on Mrs. Tempest's death, I should take it very kindly in you to give it a little turn, as if it were to the memory of the same lady.
In this eclogue there are many other passages which might have been said to be copies of the Jewish prophets, who apply it themselves to Jesus Christ; it is at least the general opinion of the Church.
The scene of Virgil's eighth Eclogue is laid in Thessaly as appropriate to the introduction of such machinery as enchantments, love-spells, &c.
